Hope & Truth Ministry
A ministry without walls.
For the wondering, the doubting, the hurting, and the hopeful. For people without a congregation, and for people who have found theirs but want another voice on the road. You are welcome here.
From the lectionary
Recent reflections
Sermons and reflections in keeping with the Revised Common Lectionary. New writing arrives most weeks.
June 20, 2026
Powerless Fear - Matthew 10 - Proper 7A
Drawing on Hagar and Ishmael cast into the wilderness (Genesis 21) and Jesus’s call to take up the cross (Matthew 10:24-39), this sermon explores how chosen fear divides, harms, and excludes — and how God consistently shows up for all the people including the cast-out and the marginalized. Leans upon the theology of James H. Cone, the cross is not defined as a symbol for a select few, but as the instrument of all people including: the oppressed, the coerced, and the marginalized. Where we can lay our struggles and find liberation. Disciples are called to pivot from chosen fear toward embodied welcome and love.
June 12, 2026 · Proper 6 Year A
Your Mission - Matthew 9 - Proper 6 Year A
Preached on Pride weekend in Des Moines, this sermon takes Jesus's harvest charge (Matthew 9:35–10:8) as a call to seek out and tend those long ignored, excluded, or harmed by broken systems — the queer community, the poor, the marginalized, and all deemed 'unclean' by those in power. Against an individualism that rewards self-sufficiency and punishes vulnerability, Jesus sends disciples out without purse or status, simply to be present, to heal without expectations. The mission is one of radical hospitality and love: finding God in the faces of those the world has cast aside or forgotten.
June 5, 2026 · Proper 10 Year A
Experience New Life - Matthew 9 - Proper 10 Year A
Jesus calls Matthew the tax collector and heals a woman who reaches out in faith despite being excluded by purity laws, addressing all who have been cast out by religious systems and inviting them into new life.